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Indigenous veterans reflect on battles at home and abroad

Canada marks Indigenous Veteran’s Day on Saturday, which began as a grassroots movement in Winnipeg in 1993, but has since ...

Old caves yield new secrets from Canadians who went over the top at Vimy Ridge

A hidden archive of what for many were last thoughts and tributes to Canada is emerging from the soft chalk tunnels beneath ...
Prince Albert Daily Herald

South African War -1899–1902

Veteran Affairs Canada, Submitted The South African War was a conflict between the British Empire and Dutch settlers, known ...

How two Canadian war amputees hiked 2,000 kilometres and shaped disability rights activism

After the First World War, two war amputees raised the profile of disabled veterans and challenged ableism as they trekked ...
SaltWire

Son of Cape Breton Second World War veteran taking up father's fight for Indigenous soldiers

Alexander ‘Alec’ MacInnis came back from the Second World War with stories from front-line battles he didn’t share with his ...
The Canadian Press on MSN

Decades after death, Calgary First World War soldier to receive military send off

Seventy years after his death, a Calgary soldier who was wounded in the First World War is to receive a military graveside ...
Calgary Herald on MSN

Review: Lunchbox calls us all to remember with First World war monologue, Ridge

In his teens, McLeod became intrigued with the First World War Battle of Vimy Ridge, which history books declare as an ...